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This is not a great time to be tone deaf about privacy. Between Facebook's rapid fall from grace to the grand launch of the EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy legislation next month, people are more sensitive than ever about their personal information.
Into this climate, Warsaw-based GOG -- Good Old Games, owned by CD Projekt Group -- launched a user profiles feature that many feel lacks important privacy guards, such as the ability to completely hide your profile, as well as the fact that it's opt-out rather than opt-in, and that the site announced it in a forum post (where many won't see it) rather than a blast email.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:44PM (1 child)
That's only going to stop it tracking what you're playing and when. The website still has your username, email, number of games owned, to share. I think it says by default you can search for people by email.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @01:57PM
Yes, the "search you by your email" is enabled by default.
Someone could send a bunch of requests to GOG with a list of emails they have from wherever and link your email to you GOG account (if you used the same one).
It doesn't show your email on the profile page though.